All the trappings of vintage Angels & Airwaves are present across LIFEFORMS. Be it Timebomb’s otherworldly use of a vocoder, Restless Souls’ widescreen chorus, or the synth-heavy Spellbound, Tom and bandmates David Kennedy, Matt Rubano and Ilan Rubin consistently conjure up the kind of sound that feels greater than the sum of its parts. Better still, LIFEFORMS offers a couple of nods to Tom’s punk roots, most notably via the sprightly indie-punk riffs of No More Guns and the breezy Automatic, which recalls Neighborhoods-era blink-182 songs like This Is Home. 2019 single Rebel Girl, meanwhile, still sounds as effervescent as it did on initial release, and remains one of Angels & Airwaves’ finest tracks.